Canadian champ Jacobs edges Italy's Retornaz despite curling at game-low 70 per cent

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Reigning Canadian champion Brad Jacobs defeated Italy's Joel Retornaz 5-4 connected Thursday greeting astatine the Players' Championship successful Toronto.

Canada skip Einarson beats Swiss counterpart Schwaller connected women's broadside successful Toronto

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 12:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Canada skip Brad Jacobs reacts during his bronze-medal lucifer against China astatine the satellite men’s curling title connected April 6, 2025 successful Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Reigning Canadian champion Brad Jacobs defeated Italy's Joel Retornaz 5-4 connected Thursday greeting astatine the Players' Championship successful Toronto.

Jacobs, who threw astatine a game-low 70 per cent, scored a azygous successful the eighth extremity for the win.

The satellite bronze medallist is playing with a substitute beforehand extremity this week of Connor Njegovan astatine pb and Tyler Tardi astatine second.

Germany's Marc Muskatewitz edged Scotland's Ross Whyte 5-4 and Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa topped South Korea's Eunji Gim 6-5.

In the different aboriginal game, Canada's Kerri Einarson bushed Switzerland's Xenia Schwaller 8-5.

Three much draws were scheduled for aboriginal successful the time astatine the Mattamy Athletic Centre. Play continues done Sunday astatine the season-ending Grand Slam of Curling event.

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Canada claims bronze medal with triumph implicit China astatine satellite curling championships

Brad Jacobs and his Canadian rink crushed China 11-2 to instrumentality the bronze medal astatine the satellite curling championships successful Moose Jaw, Sask.

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